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President Donald Trump mentioned American Jews celebrating Hanukkah shouldn’t be frightened about their security following the Bondi Seashore assault.
“Have a good time proudly – be happy with who you’re,” Trump mentioned to Fox Information on Sunday.
The president’s feedback come after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the mass capturing at a “Hanukkah by the Sea” celebration at Bondi Seashore as a “focused assault on Jewish Australians.”
“An assault on Jewish Australians is an assault on each Australian and each Australian tonight will likely be, like me, devastated on this assault on our lifestyle,” mentioned Albanese at a press convention. “There isn’t any place for this hate, violence and terrorism in our nation. Let me be clear. We’ll eradicate it.”
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A member of the Jewish group walks with police towards the scene of a capturing at Bondi Seashore in Sydney on Dec. 14, 2025. (David Grey/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Police mentioned no less than 11 folks have been killed and dozens extra have been injured.
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At a authorities assembly in Dimona, Israel, on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned he had warned Albanese in an August letter that the Australian authorities’s insurance policies have been encouraging antisemitism.
Netanyahu accused Albanese of failing to behave as antisemitism unfold and mentioned inaction had helped foster a local weather of rising hostility towards Jews.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks throughout a federal cupboard assembly in Perth on June 3, 2025. (Matt Jelonek/Getty)
“We noticed an motion of a courageous man – seems a Muslim courageous man, and I salute him – that stopped one in every of these terrorists from killing harmless Jews. But it surely requires the motion of your authorities, which you aren’t taking,” Netanyahu mentioned on the assembly. “And you must, as a result of historical past won’t forgive hesitation and weak spot. It’s going to honor motion and energy.”
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Yael Eckstein, president of the Worldwide Fellowship of Christians and Jews, mentioned the assault was a wakeup name for Jews.
“Terror doesn’t cease in America or in Europe or in Australia. It’s not solely concentrating on the Jews, it’s additionally concentrating on the Christians,” Eckstein mentioned on “Fox & Pals Weekend.” “The reply to this darkness is mild.”
Fox Information’ Peter Doocy contributed to this report.
